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Might Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least…
- She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
- He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and…
- But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained…
- And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead…
- Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She…
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine